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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!virtualnews.nyu.edu!brnstnd
  2. From: brnstnd@nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.security
  4. Subject: Re: passwd security check
  5. Message-ID: <25980.Jul2801.49.4992@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
  6. Date: 28 Jul 92 01:49:49 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul23.113410.25479@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1992Jul25.001141.10256@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1992Jul27.205704.14049@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>
  8. Organization: IR
  9. Lines: 8
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  11. In article <1992Jul27.205704.14049@random.ccs.northeastern.edu> rogue@ccs.northeastern.edu (Rogue Agent) writes:
  12.   [ if he chooses the same password as someone else ]
  13. > No, tell me
  14. > it's not acceptable - but don't tell me why (in this case).
  15.  
  16. Bad idea! The system should not perform this check, period.
  17.  
  18. ---Dan
  19.